New Trump demand to colleges: Name protesters — and their nationalities

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An early step in civil rights investigations is always a letter to the university demanding certain information. Typically, the department asks how many discrimination complaints were received and what school officials did in response.

But the Trump administration told the attorneys working on the cases to also collect the names and nationalities of students who might have harassed Jewish students or faculty, according to documents and three attorneys with the Office for Civil Rights who have direct knowledge of the situation and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cases publicly.

 
"The Education Department’s demand for the names and ethnicities of students followed a Feb. 3 notice that the agency’s Office for Civil Rights planned to investigate five universities “where widespread antisemitic harassment has been reported.” They were Columbia University, Northwestern University, Portland State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
 
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